Board of Directors

President: Linda Bouchard

Treasurer: Jeanne Newman, member bio

Secretary: Doug Winter, member bio

Members
David Cole, member bio
Yayoi Kambara, member bio
Elizabeth Stone Ph.D, member bio

Linda Bouchard
Founder & Artistic Director

Linda Bouchard has composed over 60 works in a variety of genres, from orchestral and chamber works to dance scores, concerti, and vocal pieces. Her works have been heard extensively on both sides of the Atlantic and have been recorded by the CBC and Analekta in Canada, ECM in Germany, and CRI in the US. A full compact disc of orchestral works called Exquisite Fires was released in 1998 on the Canadian label Marquis Classics. She has won awards in Canada and in the US. Linda studied with Henry Brant at Bennington College and then moved to New York City where she lived from 1979 to 1990. While there, she composed, led contemporary music and made orchestral arrangements for the Washington Ballet, the St. Luke's Orchestra and various churches in the Metropolitan area. She was Assistant Conductor for the New York Children's Free Opera with the St. Luke's Orchestra from 1985 to 1988.

In 1990, she returned to Canada and was guest conductor for the "Atelier de Musique Contemporaine" of l'Université de Montréal. In the fall of 1992 she accepted a three-year position as composer in-residence for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. In 1997, Ms. Bouchard received the Prix Opus as "Composer of the Year" by the Conseil Quebecois de la Culture. Ms. Bouchard moved to San Francisco in 1997.

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Zachary James Watkins
Inside Out Coordinator

Zachary James Watkins is a California based sound artist who has earned degrees in composition from The Cornish School and Mills College. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish, The Microscores Project, The Beam Foundation, Somnubutone, the sfSoundGroup and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has been performed as part of the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration and the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin, the later of which is released by the London new music label Confront. Zachary has presented works in numerous festivals across the United States, Mexico and Germany including the 2009 Klankunstfest, the 2006 International Computer Music Conference, the 10th Annual Music For People and Thingamajigs Festival and the second Biennial SJ01 Global Festival of Arts on the Edge. In 2007, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the AMC and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An excerpt of this piece is published on a compilation album entitled “The Harmonic Series” along side Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman and Charles Curtis. Zachary received a Subito Grant to assist in the production of the evening length composition: Movable, written for piano in just intonation and a newly invented piano extension called the “Piano Monster” built in collaboration with NYC artist Ranjit Bhatnagar. This work premiered on April 2nd 2010 by pianist Tiffany Lin at the Chapel Performance Space as part of the Wayward Music Series in Seattle, WA. His sound art work entitled Designed Obsolescence, "spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society’s permanence," review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES.

During October of 2006, Zachary was an artist in residence at the Espy Foundation.

Tam Houetin
Graphic Designer

Tam Houetin is a California based Graphic Designer. She has more than 6 years of experience in both print and web. She has designed a wide range of items from websites, emails, and banners to assorted print collateral. Her clients have spanned the gamut of industries, including the music, fashion, education, interior design, toys, beauty, and non-profit industries. Her style tends towards a clean, uncluttered approach.

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Carol Egger
Development

Carol Eggers possesses extensive experience in small, mid, and large sized arts organizations, as executive director, development generalist, and institutional specialist. She currently provides grant writing and consulting services to more than half a dozen San Francisco performing arts and arts education organizations. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jeanne Newman
Board of Directors
Treasurer

Jeanne Newman has worked in design, publishing and retail, and in 1975 co-founded Calera Wine Company and vineyard in Hollister, California, with Josh Jensen. In 1991 she helped found Other Minds, a new and innovative music organization, with Jim Newman in San Francisco. Jeanne is a Trustee of The Leakey Foundation. Her years of fund-raising and event -planning for schools, and arts organizations, and environmental non-profits, and her love of science and the arts, especially contemporary music, has led her to pursue her interests as a member of the NEXMAP Board of Trustees.

Doug Winter
Secretary

Doug Winter was a founding member of the Oberlin Dance Collective, now ODC/SF. Originally an art director and photographer, he graduated from Oberlin College, and did his graduate work at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. He comes to NEXMAP's board from the construction and business world.

David Cole
Board of Directors
Member

David Cole is an educational consultant and senior program director for the Pearson Foundation, the charitable arm of Pearson PLC, the international education and media company. In this role, David works directly with schools, districts and national non-profit partners to deliver programs and services that support literacy, 21st Century skills and academic outcomes for students and related professional and career development opportunities for teachers.

Yayoi Kambara
Board of Directors
Member

YAYOI KAMBARA Dancer, was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in the Bay Area and Surrey, England. She earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Lawrence University and a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In the Bay Area, she has been fortunate to dance with STEAMROLLER Dance Company, Flyaway Productions, Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband and Scott Wells. Yayoi joined ODC in 2003.

Elizabeth Stone Ph.D
Board of Directors
Member

Elizabeth is a native San Franciscan. She is an Educational Consultant and freelance journalist with offices in San Mateo and San Francisco. For several years, she worked as Director of Marketing for ODC/Dance and was an interim Marketing Manager for the San Francisco Symphony. She served a seven-year term as Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for the City of San Mateo. Elizabeth has PhD in Special Education and a MA from New York University.

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